Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

> In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
> 
> >Many more Lisas were sold to Sun Remarketing where they package
> >it with Mac emulation and called it the Macintosh XL...
> 
>     Actually it was Apple that did the renaming, the Lisa 2 was
> assimilated into the Macintosh line and called "Macintosh XL".
> If I'm not mistaken, they didn't change the hardware inside (or
> even do as much as give it a new Apple product part number code).

There was at least one modification: the screen hardware is modified
slightly to change the aspect ratio of the screen.  The Lisa doesn't
have square pixels, but a proper Mac XL does.

I have a vague feeling that another modification was done, but don't
remember what.

>     Hmm, as for the Lisas burried in a landfill, didn't they gut
> the machines and burry just the empty cases?

"Burry"?  :-)

I don't remember hearing that it was just the cases - wherever it was I
originally read about this said that the remaining stock of Lisas had
been buried, which to me implied entire machines.  (I read this well
before the earlier quoted Byte article.)

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